Improving housing affordability in Australia may help reduce the burden on the country’s health system, according to a Perspective published in the Medical Journal of Australia today.
More than 500 lives could be saved each year through the Australian Government’s new National Lung Cancer Screening Program, which advocates have described as “world leading”.
Dr Zoe Leviston and Professor Iain Walker investigate how well Australians really adhered to COVID-19 directives, and what it reveals about human perception and misconception.
The increase in hospital in the home admissions during the pandemic raises the broader question about how much acute paediatric care could be achieved outside of hospital settings, write Associate Professor Penelope Bryant and Dr Laila Ibrahim.
The rise in prescribing and dispensing rates for psychotropic medications for children and adolescents cannot be entirely attributable to the pandemic, and further research is needed to learn why certain prescribing patterns have emerged.
InSight+ journalist Becca Whitehead takes a personal look at the current state of multiple sclerosis treatment and research for World Multiple Sclerosis Day.
Verbal and physical assault in hospital wards, accident and emergency departments and primary care should never be accepted as “part of the job” and more steps must be taken to keep all health care workers safe, including doctors, write Dr Gifar Hassan and Clinical Professor Leanne Rowe AM
Bulk-billing for certain groups has been given a lifeline at the eleventh hour, but the funding announcement is fraught with complexities, writes Dr Alisha Dorrigan.
Step by step, door to door, district by district, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s new Project Zero aims to find and treat every woman living with obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. It is an ambitious yet achievable goal, writes Carolyn Hardy, CEO of Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation.
